Social science

Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy

by Ravi Kalia

The essays in this volume address the central theme of Pakistan's enduring, yet elusive, quest for democracy. The book charts Pakistan's struggle from its very inception, at least in the political rhetoric provided...

Street Vendors and the Global Urban Economy

by Sharit Bhowmik

This volume looks at the living and working conditions of street vendors in different cities of the world. It examines the legal guidelines regarding control of public space and the rights of the working poor...

Filming the Line of Control

by Meenakshi Bharat & Nirmal Kumar

Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries....

Reacting to Reality Television

by Beverley Skeggs & Helen Wood

The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.

The zeal with which television executives...

Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology

by Jacqueline Adams

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression,...

Advancing Peace Research: Leaving Traces, Selected Articles by J. David Singer

by J. David David Singer, Jody B B Lear & Diane Macaulay

Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University...

Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia

by Jungug Choi

This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines. It discusses this link in terms of three distinct elements:...

Europeanization, Integration and Identity: A Social Constructivist Fusion Perspective on Norway

by Gamze Tanil

This book analyses how domestic and European structures impact on national actors' identities, interests and foreign policy practices. Employing Norway as the case study area, the author uses this nation as...

The Good Life in a Technological Age

by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle & Edward Spence

Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social...

September 11: An Oral History

by Dean Murphy

About 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Thousands more narrowly escaped, their survival a result of eerily prescient spur-of-the-moment...

Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism

by John Garrick

This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of China's law reforms. The chapters examine China's 'going out' policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms...

Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence

by Terrell Carver & Samuel A A Chambers

Michael J. Shapiro's writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws from his...

Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

by Hazel Andrews & Les Roberts

Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration...

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook & Nicholas Long

Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines...

Globalisation and European Integration: Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations

by Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek & Andreas Tsolakis

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms.

Divided...

European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?

by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard & Patryk Pawlak

This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration.

The EU functions in a complex...

Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

by Frederik Holst

This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis,...

Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy

by Ronald W. W. Cox

More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations...

Labour Migration and Human Trafficking

by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons & Willem van van Schendel

Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little...

Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery: Body image, Shame and Narcissism

by Jane Megan Megan Northrop

Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming. It is the fastest growing medical specialty, yet misconceptions abound about those who undertake it and their reasons for doing so. With a grounded...